Eartholeum will chart Nigeria’s Mobile Financial Landscape – Interview with Management
Bola Adeyinka
Chief Executive Officer.
Peter Afam Emeleogu
Chief Visionary Officer
MMA: Share with Africans the strong compelling reason for eartholeum’s foray into technology and mobile payment systems?
The banking infrastructure in Africa is low compared to the developed countries of the world, in terms of bank branches, point of sales terminals and ATM points. However, there is a high [...]
MobileMoney: Shape of things to come in Nigeria
Emmanuel Okoegwale
The Nigerian Financial Regulator, Central Bank of Nigeria had since last year released the regulatory framework to guide the operations of potential mobile money operators in Nigeria. The policy guidelines though with some flaws but like all regulatory positions, prevailing situations always shape and influence review on a consistent Basis or on a need [...]
BSP Media will stimulate Mobile Commerce in West Africa – Benjamin Pius
Benjamin Pius
Share with Africans the vision of BSPMEDIA?
Our vision is to provide unparalleled access to critical business information that business executives across Africa need to achieve competitive advantage in their business.
How are your events impacting on the sector in Africa?
We believe that we are in the business of helping business and organisation grow in [...]
Mobile Money Fundamentals Training – Nigeria
Mobile Money Fundamentals – MMF 101
Venue: Victoria Crown Plaza Hotel,Ajose Adeogun Street, Victoria Island. – www.vcp-hotel.com
Date: March 10th, 2010
Nigeria,in coming months will join the likes of Kenya where Mobile Money is changing the way people access financial services.More than 8Million people are actively served by the MPESA MMT System in Kenya alone and 15 percent [...]
XIPWIRE,will keep money where it belongs – Sibyl Lindsay
Interview with Sibyl Lindsay
XIPWIRE
VP of Sales and Marketing
www.xipwire.com
MMA: Share XIPWIRE’s background?
XIPWIRE was founded by Sharif Alexandre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Sharif has been in the IT world for 15 years working for companies such as MTV, Sprint and Lockheed Martin. Watching the rest of the world embrace mobile payments Sharif decided that he wanted [...]
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Paul Leishman
On Tuesday in Yaounde, we hosted the GSMA Central African Mobile Money Roundtable. This was the first regional event of its kind hosted by the GSMA, and it was designed to share information and experiences regulating mobile money with BEAC, the financial services regulator for the Economic Community of Central African States, which includes [...]
New mobile payment service powered by Creova to be offered by BIAT bank and Tunisiana
Creova, a leader in developing mobile payment software solutions, has announced the launch of the first Mobile Payment service in North Africa. Called Mdinar©, the new service is an m-wallet solution powered by Creova’s mobile payment technology that is being [...]
Octopus Ventures Ltd , one of the UK’s leading investment companies in early-stage and expanding companies, has led an investment round of £3 million into Mi-Pay Ltd , a leading processor of payments for the fast-emerging mobile money sector. The investment round was also supported by existing institutional investor Albion Ventures LLP and management.
Mi-Pay’s existing [...]
Nancy Sudheer
Mobile payment solution companies are engaged in talks with the Middle East telecom operators to target the large immigrant population.
Many of them are talking to two to four operators in the region to meet the growing demand for mobile payment solutions. The companies see large-scale use of mobile phones for banking in Middle East [...]
Kaustuv Ghosh.
What is innovation? Is it the process of giving birth to an original idea and therefore an invention in the true sense? Or is it the use of existing ideas in different contexts to produce solutions that can be used for identified purposes? Better still, is innovation an accident of sorts-a chance encounter with [...]
The Economic Times
An Afghan police officer gets his salary in a text message on his mobile phone. A Kenyan worker dials a few numbers to send money to his family.
The rise of banking transactions through mobile phones is giving a whole new meaning to pocket money in parts of the developing world that lack banks [...]
Syeda Amtul
Finding the smartest mode of overseas money transfer is a concern especially for many expatriates, most of whom send money to their families back home. Speed, economy and security are the main features they look for in remittance instruments, such as, online and mobile phone transactions.
“A popular remittance choice for expats is the draft [...]
Bola Adeyinka
Chief Executive Officer.
Peter Afam Emeleogu
Chief Visionary Officer
MMA: Share with Africans the strong compelling reason for eartholeum’s foray into technology and mobile payment systems?
The banking infrastructure in Africa is low compared to the developed countries of the world, in terms of bank branches, point of sales terminals and ATM points. However, there is a high [...]
Nathan Wythe
Editor – Nextbillion.com
Even before I fully knew what mobile money was, I could tell it was going to be huge. One look at the size of immigrant remittance flows that have become the largest source of funds flowing into many developing economies (and are more stable than FDI), and you can tell that innovative [...]
Nokia, one of the world’s biggest and foremost mobile phone vendors, has officially rolled out its money transfer services in association with Yes Bank, which has managed to gain regulatory approvals from the Reserve Bank of India in order to act as the issuing bank and the custodian of funds involved in these services.
Currently, Nokia [...]
